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Open Access – The New Internet Enabled Business Model for Scientific Publishing

Open Access – The New Internet Enabled Business Model for Scientific Publishing. Professor Bo-Christer Björk Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration. The evolution of scientific publishing. Two interconnected paradigm shifts. From printed to electronic delivery

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Open Access – The New Internet Enabled Business Model for Scientific Publishing

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  1. Open Access –The New Internet Enabled Business Model for Scientific Publishing Professor Bo-Christer Björk Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

  2. The evolution of scientific publishing

  3. Two interconnected paradigm shifts • From printed to electronic delivery • From subscription to a variety of business models

  4. The price/citation diagrams Bergstrom C. Et al 2001

  5. What is Open Access • Making scientific content available for free on the WWW • Free means free of charge and access restrictions for the readers • But not necessarily that there isn’t a price tag involved (new revenue models) • Either as primary or secondary outlet

  6. Business models for scientific journal publishing

  7. Open Access Journals

  8. Subject based e-print servers

  9. Institutional repositories

  10. Self-publishing

  11. How important is OA today? • Open Access Journals around 1 % • E-print servers important in some areas • Institutional repositories just starting • Self-publishing the most common method

  12. New refereed scientific journals founded in the years 1993-2002 categorised according to type

  13. Number of OA journals as a percentage of all newly founded scientific journals 1993-2002

  14. Biomed Central

  15. What are the main barriers?

  16. Means to overcome the barriers

  17. Useful links • Finnish Open Access working group http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/finnoa/ • OACS research project http://www.oacs.shh.fi/ • Swedish Resource Centre for Scientific Communication http://www.sciecom.org/ • Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ • EPrints.org - Self-Archiving and Open Archives http://www.eprints.org/ • Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ • Open Archives Initiative (OAI) http://www.openarchives.org/

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